New Hampshire St. Patrick’s Day 2007
Begorrah! This Saturday is St. Patrick's Day. Although New Hampshire has a varied ethnic heritage, among the prominent groups who early ... Continue reading →
View ArticleA New Hampshire Éirinn go Brách: Addie (Ryan) Manning (1879-1968)
She insisted that I wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. If I forgot, all it took was her gentle look of personal displeasure to make me quickly change. When this Irish holiday comes around, she is...
View ArticleSt. Patrick’s Day 2018: Is New Hampshire Losing Its Irishness?
Is it the food, the beer, the music, the dance, the accent, the parades or the vocabulary that still connects people to their Irish heritage? Or is it instead nostalgia for the past and personal...
View ArticleIn Celebration of A Grandfather: Charles Aloysius Manning
Fathers Day: June 17, 2018 In the past I’ve written about the paternal side of my family, and several times about my father who I adored. It is quite easy for me to write about people who I knew and …...
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